How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Elodie lowered her gaze in thought for a moment. "You don't need to worry. I'll find

a way to handle this. There are several people assisting me at work, and they'll all be questioned as well. Maybe something just went wrong somewhere along the line."

"Let's wait and see," Charlie said. "I'll reach out to Klein again and see if there's anything to clarify. Don't be afraid." He didn't know the details, but he trusted that Elodie wouldn't make a mistake.

Elodie nodded in agreement.

There were quite a few people on the team.

But the person who handled most of the important tasks with her was Lily Lockwood.

Everything Lily submitted, Elodie reviewed first.

Which meant the problem had to have occurred right before submission.

As for Lily, she was clearly less of a suspect. She had nothing to gain by tampering with the data, and Elodie had a personal relationship with Jarrod—a marriage in name, if not in spirit.

Besides, Elodie didn't believe Lily bore her any deep grudge that would make her risk everything to frame her.

After all, if Lily got caught, she'd lose all the hard-won opportunities she'd fought for.

When the call ended, Alexander finally turned to her. "So, what's your take on all this?"

At the moment, with Elodie under investigation, her work with Project 719 would be put on hold. She'd have to step away from the facility to ensure an impartial review of the situation.

Once she was suspended and off-site, she wouldn't have a chance to prove her innocence. She'd be left sitting on her hands, just waiting.

her head. "I have a lot of ideas, but nothing I can be sure of yet." Alexander considered this. "You think Jarrod has anything to do

know

how things went between her and Jarrod's team. But the fact remained: Elodie had gotten caught up in a mess originating

slipped through. By all reasonable analysis, if there was a variable, it was likely on Jarrod's

between Elodie and Jarrod were

child, Alexander thought. A man like Jarrod

Mercer that Jarrod and Elodie had a huge fight over this, and it hadn't

cared

he blamed Elodie

as calculating as Jarrod could he really

might have

after all the hardship Elodie had endured over the years, Alexander couldn't

head almost immediately. "No. All the

tampering happened right before

She understood Jarrod.

did hate her, he wouldn't stoop so low. He was

direct brutal, even-but, net

need to

be that bold?" Alexander

quickly added, "If it was sabotage, that

it better

he admired her for

else to

The car started up.

out the